Improved foot corn-planter



N. SILVESTER.

` Hand Seeder.

Patented May 20, 1862.

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. feeder-box A, as shown in Fig. 2.

NELSON SILVESTEB,

on GRANGER, OHIO.

IMPROVED FOOT CORN-PLANTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,33), dated May 20, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELSON SrLvnsTEn, of Granger, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented nevr and vuseful Improvements in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full and com plete description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective vievv. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionof the upper part, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section ot' the planter.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several views.

A bag of corn is hung tO the shoulder of the Operator, the mouth of the bag being fastened to the top of the feeder A, which hangs by the side of the operator in such position that he. can conveniently handle the lever B. The in ner end of this lever isforxned into a cam, G, Awhich articulates upon a t'o1crum-pin in the The cani C is so shaped that it forms a cup or cavity, F,

" to receive a quantity of corn sufficient for one hill when the lever B is down, as shown in Fig.

When the lever is raised to the position indicated t B in Fig. 2 the cup F of the cam VC is inverted, and the corn is dropped down through the tube D into the Planter, Fig. 3.

E, Fig. 2, is a piece ot' leather or other elastic material, which is placed in or constitutes the front side'of the feeder-box A, and Aagainst which the point of the cam O presses, and by its elasticity preserves the gra-ins of corn from being brokemand moves back the surplus grain in the cavity F ot' the cam C, upon the principle of the brush in seeding-machines.

The platen G, Figs. l and 3, is strapped to the sole ot the hoot of the operator, and as the corn is dropped into the planter through the tube D the operator, in the act of walking, forces the lower end of the planter into the ground. and the piston H, Which is attached to the platen G, forces the corn into the ground, as indicated at H', Fig. 3.

I is a shovel, which is attached to the lever J, and which is operated by the ascent and descent ofthe piston H, and as the piston H rises from the position seen at H the shovel I 'the hole made by the pston H. The piston H is inclosed iu a casing, K, into which casing the lcorn is conveyed by the tube D, at the pleasure ot' the operator, by the movement of the lever B.

I do not claim the herein-described feeding device A O E or the connecting-tube D, for these have been before used. Therefore l/Vhat I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lever .I and shovel I, in combination with the platen Gr and piston H, arranged and operatin g as andfor the purpose set forth.

NELSON SILVESTER. Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, EDWARD SYLvEs'rER..

covers up the corn by scraping the soil into 

